Good news via the Esri dev blog for you ArcGIS developers interested in SilverLight as the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0 and ArcGIS for Sharepoint have been released. Users can now create a Silverlight-based web mapping app via an intuitive WYSIWYG App Builder. More about the SilverLight solutions from Esri. With the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, you can:
- Use ArcGIS Online, Bing Maps, or ArcGIS Server map services as basemaps
- Add data from ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online on top of your basemap
- Open maps from ArcGIS.com
- Perform map navigation
- Find addresses and place names (through ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Online services)
- Run GIS analysis (via Geoprocessing services)
- Edit features of feature layers that have editing enabled
- See more http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/
Recall, ArcGIS for Sharepoint enables users to incorporate GIS web services into SharePoint through a Map Web Part